Leigh pulls a piece of tissue out of the tissue box, wipes the blood from his hand and sits down on the relatively intact sofa.
David picks up the cigarette case and the lighter, and then hands them to Leigh.
Leigh takes out a cigarette and puts it between his lips. David helps Leigh light it, but he can't read Leigh's face, "If it's inconvenient for you, I'll ask Miss Jessie to do it."
"Does she look very like her sister?"
"I've seen her sister's picture. They do look alike." David glances at Leigh as he says, "But Miss Jessie has had a plastic surgery, and she is slimmer than before."
Leigh exhales some smoke. With the white smoke covering his stern face, he says, "I want a laptop."
David immediately runs to get it.
A minute later, he returns with a laptop in hand. He even brings a chair, and then gives them to Leigh.
Leigh takes a long drag on his cigarette, hands it to David, and types fast on the laptop.
David sees the motions of Leigh's fingers with countless programs running on the laptop's screen. Leigh even asks someone to do his bidding on a video call.
When Leigh finishes, David looks at the screen and gets shocked, "Holy shit! Angelina dated Benjamin before, that star...."
He quickly gets his head around it and says, "Angelina had an abortion. If she only dated Benjamin when she was alive, the child would definitely be Benjamin's."
With that, David puts his hand on his left chest where his heart is beating fast, and warns himself,
"Never offend Mr. Leigh!"
"Benjamin showed me a video this morning," Leigh stares at the laptop's screen, "At that time, I also wondered why he filmed this video though they didn't know each other."
Maybe Jessie knows this earlier. That's why, on that day, she said that she liked Benjamin after quarreling with Leigh on the cruise ship. She wanted to get Leigh jealous so that he would kill Benjamin.
No wonder Benjamin said that Jessie was using him when he left.
David is shocked, "Benjamin is so bold that he even dares to fool you. Then Mr. Leigh...."
"Get out!" Leigh orders. He supports his forehead with his hands, and his tone was sharp, as if he is suppressing his fury.
David doesn't dare to stay any longer, so he goes out.
When David is out, he bumps into a woman who wears a mask. The woman asks, "David, why are you here?"
And then she takes off her mask.
"Miss Jessie," Seeing Jessie with a food thermos in her hand, David thinks for a while and says, "Mr. Leigh is in a bad mood due to the work. There may be some...."
Jessie gets a little nervous and worried, "Is he OK?"
"He's fine. Just the things in the office are smashed," David says, "I still have things to do, so I have to go. Miss Jessie, you've done a good job."
"Okay."
Jessie watches David leave and mutters in puzzlement, "What does he mean by saying that?"
Jessie opens the door and enters the office. She is frightened by the mess inside. When she sees Leigh, who seems to be fine, on the sofa, she feels a little relieved and walks to him with the food thermos.
"Even if things don't go quite smoothly with your work, you don't have to smash things. It's all your money. Won't you feel bad if you buy them again?" Jessie nags as she helps the end table up and puts the food thermos on it.
Leigh supports his forehead with his hand and doesn't move.
Jessie realizes that something is wrong with him and sits by him. She whispers, "What's wrong?"
Leigh finally reacts. He turns around and looks at Jessie. Something fierce moves in his eyes and disappears in an instant, and he looks somewhat confused. Then, he holds her in his arms.
He hugs her more and more tightly.
He wants to strangle Jessie because she has set him up and lied to him. Even if she wants revenge, why doesn't she ask others to do it? No matter how much she hates Derek, Derek is his father.
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